What do you say about wealthy entertainers (who get paid millions of dollars for their acting) who are sympathetic (like Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, and Susan Sarandon, etc.)? Are they considered capitalists or no, because they don't actually use "capital" to earn money. Under socialism/communism, what do you do with these people and their money?
How will what were management decisions be made at what used to be private businesses?
What about marketing? What would marketing look like (even exist?) under socialism? Socialists are big on saying that corporate Amerika manipulates innocent consumers into wanting things they wouldn't otherwise so are we to assume there wouldn't be marketing at all or just "non-manipulative" marketing?
I gots to find me some South Florida Socialists of whom to ask these questions...they keep me up at night.
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Well, I don't know about the FAR left, but leftists realize that most rich people may have actually earned their money, and deserve to have it. If they choose to donate some of it back, like St. Buffet, then God-bless.
But remember that it doesn't take too many people to fuck up a good thing like capitalism. It only takes one board member to OK dumping toxic substances into public water supply, or cut wages for laborers in India to less than $2.00 a day, or approve a commercial that casts doubt on the existence of global warming (I'm not talking about man-made global warming, just the very threat itself of climate change).
Say what you will about so called the left, but by cutting almost all restrain to corporate practices, how do you expect common good to overcome the promise of personal gain? How do you expect the human sense of morality to prevail when the market ONLY respects profit margin (in the end people will go for who makes things cheaper, not who uses morally justifiable business practices)? And how do you expect people to take responsibility for the negative ramifications of destructive business dealings when people can just say that the board (or mob) gave it the "go-ahead"?
And besides, if crack-cocaine wasn't illegal, don't you think there would be somebody selling crack to "innocent consumers"? What if your children were given free samples, just so they can try it and see how they like it?
You can't put a price on justice, you can only ignore it in favor of the profit margin.
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